RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Tablets with 802.11a/n

2012-10-21 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] on behalf of Anders

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple Petition

2012-07-10 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
How about 802.11r Fast Roaming/Proactive Key Caching? Thanks, Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org 149 13th Street, 10th Floor, Mailstop 10055B, Charlestown, Ma 02129 -Original Message- From: Voll, Toivo

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple Petition (Was Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] You knew it was coming...Airplay/Apple TV support for instructors.)

2012-07-10 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
Thanks Curtis, missed the earlier amendment. Thanks, Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org 149 13th Street, 10th Floor, Mailstop 10055B, Charlestown, Ma 02129 -Original Message- From: Curtis K. Larsen

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 4-channels in 2.4 GHz

2012-05-13 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
Hi David, Please forward me a copy of your research report. Thanks, Bruce Johnson | Network Engineering Partners Healthcare | 617.726.9662 bjohns...@partners.orgmailto:bjohns...@partners.org On May 10, 2012, at 3:11 PM, David J Molta djmo...@syr.edumailto:djmo...@syr.edu wrote: I had some

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Signal variability after upgrade to 7.0.116

2011-09-01 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
If you have RRM enabled, you may want to check your RRM transmit power threshold (show advanced 802.11a/b tx-power-control-thresh). Compare your running configuration with your original configuration before the upgrade. As mentioned, where you upgraded from can be a difference maker,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ruckus

2011-08-17 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
The question I have had with Ruckus is how their APs coordinate their beamforming activities so as to not contend for the same clients. It seems there would need to be a control plane to avoid AP contention. How does one survey for these APs? Do you factor in the beamforming (unicast frames,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ruckus

2011-08-17 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
- 54th Ave S St. Petersburg, FL 33711 On 8/17/11 10:38 AM, Johnson, Bruce T. wrote: The question I have had with Ruckus is how their APs coordinate their beamforming activities so as to not contend for the same clients. It seems there would need to be a control plane to avoid AP contention. How

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ruckus

2011-08-17 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
: Johnson, Bruce T. [bjohns...@partners.org] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Ruckus From what I can tell they use the MAC address as a base identifier; in a mesh the system identifies the device and somehow decides and which AP has a better signal/connection. Unmeshed APs simply hold on to the device

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n configuration on Cisco

2010-04-16 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
Is the AP configured with 2 transmit antennas? Try rebooting/ resetting the AP to factory default? Toggling ClientLink? Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare | 617.726.9662 bjohns...@partners.org On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Mike King m...@mpking.com wrote: Ok. I

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba vs HP vs Meraki

2010-04-12 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
I'd bring the 1250 to a bar fight. It's more Medieval. Bruce T. Johnson | Partners Healthcare | Network Engineering 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Sessler [j...@scrippscollege.edu] Received: 4/11/10 10:27 PM To:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Client DHCP issues after WLC upgrade

2010-04-01 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
Thanks Mike and Loc, The more TAC cases opened for this the better. It's getting the WNBUs attention, and needs to be checked in for resolution in the next release (so far looks like they're still trying to isolate the issue -- don't be surprised if they ask you to actively monitor). The bug

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] New 5508 Wireless Controller

2010-03-02 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
Mike, Depending on your AP density and client base you might want to further restrict your data rates. The 1140s vary their transmit power by data rate for 802.3af compatibility and beam-forming (ClientLink). ClientLink and MRC will mitigate these transmit power reductions for legacy clients.

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco WCS Issue

2010-01-25 Thread Johnson, Bruce T.
Tim, What WCS report did you run to get these up/down events? Thanks, Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org -Original Message- From: Timothy Payne [tpay...@macalester.edu] Received:

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Upgrade to N

2009-12-03 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
His Joseph,Regarding your Xirrus deployment, has that resulted in a better than 1:1 replacement ratio?Regards,Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org 149 13th Street, 10th Floor, Mailstop 10055B, Charlestown, Ma 02129

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 1140 Cisco APs

2009-11-09 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
All, It should be noted that since the 1140 uses standard PoE, it makes some sacrifices in transmit power by data rate and MCS/ Beam-Forming support. The 1250 just has the standard FCC UNII-band EIRP transmit power restrictions (with Cisco's implicit antenna gain for external antenna

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Problems with Cisco Work Group Bridges

2009-06-25 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Ian, Apart from the possible RF causes mentioned (you can try running a dot11 linktest against the root/parent mac). 1. Is the Aironet IE enabled on the SSID? What about dot11 extension aironet on the AP interface? 2. Is the bridge setup as a mobile station (under d0/1 interface)? This is the

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco LWAPP- The change from WLAN Override to AP Groups- Pain?

2009-06-12 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Hector, Have you tried disabling/enabling or deleting/re-adding the missing WLANs? Does a new WLAN show up in the default group? Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco LWAPP- The change from WLAN Override to AP Groups- Pain?

2009-06-12 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Thanks Hector. That's a tough one. Good luck with the TAC on getting this resolved. Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone going to Networkers?

2009-06-12 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Where self-healing network is building on . From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:05 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] ...Any opinions on the Cisco 5508 WLC?

2009-06-08 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Is the 5508 still under the control of the same relatively non-transparent operating system? Can we see/manipulate flash or firmware/config files, and monitor processes? Is there any hope for this being more IOS like now that its on next-generation hardware? Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] ARuba VLAN pooling

2009-05-28 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Thanks Philippe, Is load-balancing the only algorithm available for this method of VLAN assignment? --Bruce Johnson From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Philippe Hanset Sent:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] ARuba VLAN pooling

2009-05-28 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
PM, Johnson, Bruce T wrote: Thanks Philippe, Is load-balancing the only algorithm available for this method of VLAN assignment? --Bruce Johnson From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users

2009-05-22 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 1:25 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users Yes I can imagine. Thanks for the heads-up. How hard has it been to provision via RADIUS? I am in favor

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users

2009-05-21 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
they get limited or no connectivity until Microsoft retries the dhcp requests... Having one or two SSIDS is king, and when it works, its magic! From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users

2009-05-16 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Thanks Jason and Mike. Great feedback. We have our Network Security folks administer RADIUS, so I'm trying to gauge operational impact. How much time do you think this adds to the workload? Are there flexible wildcard-match options? Regards, Bruce T. Johnson | Partners Healthcare Network

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users

2009-05-15 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Is that a temporary condition until DHCP completes? Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer Partners Healthcare | Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org BLOCKED::mailto:bjohns...@partners.org From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users

2009-05-15 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
[mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 12:45 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users Is that a temporary condition until DHCP completes? Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Stable version of Cisco WLC code supporting the 1140?

2009-04-01 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Ditto here too. Waiting for 6.0 MR1 with Legacy Beam Forming (OFDM clients required). Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org | 149 13th Street, 10th Floor, Mailstop 10055B, Charlestown, Ma 02129

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Have to lie to LWAPP APs about power injectors?

2009-03-19 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Lee, How old are these 1130s? Some older ones have issues using all the 5GHz bands, they may have other issues. Check the Field Notices on CCO. Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org 149 13th

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Have to lie to LWAPP APs about power injectors?

2009-03-19 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
that this sort of thing is far from being a Cisco-only problem, though. -Lee From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:59 AM

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiplecontrollers

2009-03-16 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
I agree with you - the current state of jumping around between contexts to configure and troubleshoot is not very good, not to mention that its still a very MAC-layer intensive troubleshooting process. I can't even get what data rate a client is connected without doing a remote debug, and there's

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Big Aruba Environments- Management of multiplecontrollers

2009-03-15 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Lee and John, What's lacking in AirWave's config capabilities? Doesn't it support all the controller's configuration elements? Is this a matter of some here (CLI), some there (controller GUI or NMS)? I liked AirWave's directory-based approach. To me it allows for better configuration

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Mac OSX and 5Ghz

2009-03-05 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
They have to be referring to real throughput (for once), and up to is an really sneaky preface. Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Transitioning to dot1x

2009-02-19 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Check your WLAN Session timeout - this forces a full re-auth at the specified interval. The default for dot1x is every 30 minutes. You may want to make this value larger. The User Idle Timeout will do the same thing, but most laptops generate enough incidental traffic to keep the idle timer

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Transitioning to dot1x

2009-02-19 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
...@bayerbbs.com WEB http://www.bayerus.com http://www.bayerus.com/ Johnson, Bruce T bjohns...@partners.org Sent by: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU 02/19/2009 11:20 AM Please respond to The EDUCAUSE

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Aironet 1140 vs 1250

2009-02-17 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
, 10th Floor, Mailstop 10055B, Charlestown, Ma 02129 -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:48 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Aironet 1140 vs 1250

2009-02-17 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Thanks Earl, I guess we'll need an LWAPP to IOS downgrade tool until then (the crossover cable net 10 TFTP static file technique).. Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | bjohns...@partners.org | 149 13th Street, 10th

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] XP SP3 and cached credentials...

2009-01-29 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Hector, I believe this is what I have observed as well. Sometimes you have to open the network icon in the systray to get the credential box to appear. I see this when I log on locally as an Administrator rather than a domain user. While we're talking about PEAP, does anyone know whether

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n testplans

2009-01-29 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Morrisville State College 315-684-6053 -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:36 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n testplans

2009-01-29 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
[mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:25 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n testplans Thank you Matt, I appreciate the feedback and may want to get more of your Meru experiences offline. A 5GHz

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Comments about Aruba and Cisco????

2009-01-29 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Now that would be interesting - different data rates and/or Radio Management support, per controller, based on an AP Grouping mechanism. The fatter these controllers get the more it has to be the procrustean bed for all sorts of wireless devices. Does any Thin AP vendor support this? Bruce T.

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Comments about Aruba and Cisco????

2009-01-29 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
of North Carolina Pembroke- Division of Information Technology Network Security Specialist 910-521-6260 chris.des...@uncp.edu -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Comments about Aruba and Cisco????

2009-01-28 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Chris, You have some good points here. You are incorrect on the power setting per controller comment. Cisco's Radio Resource Management (RRM or Auto-RF) can change the power differentially across APs, and APs can be selectively removed from global RRM control for power and channel changes, and

[WIRELESS-LAN] 802.11n testplans

2009-01-28 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Toivo et al, Great comments. Does anyone have any 802.11n testplans they are willing to share? 802.11n Survey experiences? Has it turned the traditional survey methodology on its head, or do we still have to consider legacy and so the n simply stands for Nice (if you have it). Anyone with

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Any problems with Intel 5100s on Cisco lightweight APs using N?

2009-01-16 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Brady, I'm curious - does enabling a-mpdu support disable a-msdu support? Given that a-msdu aggregation does not supply a header and checksum for each frame might explain the performance problems. Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 |

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba ARM 2.0

2008-12-04 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Sounds like TKIP countermeasures kicking in. A man-in-the-middle attack was detected. Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba ARM 2.0

2008-12-04 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Has anyone seen or know of how this client-based TKIP notification manifests on Cisco controllers? Bruce T. Johnson | Network Engineer | Partners Healthcare Network Engineering | 617.726.9662 | Pager: 31633 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 11n users

2008-11-11 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Do people deploying the 1252s find that 802.11a and 802.11g clients are getting better range and/or throughput? I understand that MIMO and MRC will improve the AP's receive sensitivity, making clients more visible, but I was curious whether this would apply to the downstream as well as the

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 11n users

2008-11-11 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
What transmit power are people being using on the 1252 2.4 and 5GHz .11n radios? Are you stepping down the power to reduce the increased range effect? I agree small cells with greater throughput are better, but more robust coverage is also an important consideration, depending on location

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Windows Wireless Clients- strange behavior after recent Windows Updates?

2008-10-31 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
CSCsr40109 Bug Details http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit/search/getBugDetails.do?method=fetchBu gDetailsbugId=CSCsl51486from=summary Mobility announcements not sent after an upgrade when wrong version Symptom: When a mobile station roams from an AP joined to one controller, to an AP

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Client behavior on secured wlans...

2008-10-20 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
this issues was not mobile at all, so it made sense to change the roaming settings to a lower value. Hector From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:20 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Wireless Controller

2008-10-09 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:40 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Wireless Controller That's a good point Jeff, I understood RLDP causes APs to become active

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Wireless Controller

2008-10-09 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:40 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Wireless Controller

2008-10-08 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
I have seen the radios reset. You can configure the controller to have APs to individually syslog to a desktop syslog tool like the Kiwi Syslog Daemon to verify this. Its a good way to see if anything odd is happening. We run 4.2.112. We also disabled Traffic Stream Metrics where we have a

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco Wireless Controller

2008-10-08 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Bear in mind the controllers are designed to remove associations (and save resources) if there hasn't been any traffic seen from the clients. The User Idle Timeout is responsible for this behavior. You can increase this value from its default of 300s to a higher value. This will keep the

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPhone 2.0 news

2008-07-25 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
-6053 -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 11:45 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPhone 2.0 news Hey iPod Touch users out

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] WiFi Location Tracking

2008-06-12 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Kevin, Were you able to deploy Listening Only Monitor Mode APs? If you had a standard data deployment of APs, how many more APs did you have to add as a percentage? Thanks Kevin, Bruce Johnson Network Engineer Partners Healthcare 617-726-9662 mailto:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 1, 2 Mbps- revisit

2008-06-02 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Hey Stan, What's been your experience with the PolyComm phones? Are you using the 8000 Series 802.11a phones? Their minimum RSSI spec (-60) seems to be considerably lower than the Cisco 7921G. I'm assuming you are using a Cisco infrastructure (apologies if not). Do these phones truly

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 1, 2 Mbps- revisit

2008-06-02 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 11:37 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 1, 2 Mbps- revisit Hey Stan, What's been your experience with the PolyComm phones? Are you using the 8000 Series

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Disabling 1, 2 Mbps- revisit

2008-06-02 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: WLANstan Yahoo!: WLANstan MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 12:12 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless planner tools

2008-05-10 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Brian, We're gone from using Wireless Valley to AirMagnet Survey. The former I would consider best of breed (allows assignment of attenuation values to CAD drawing layers) but its a bit unwieldy (and expensive) as far as an active survey tool. AirMagnet and Ekahau offer more reasonably

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] SPAM RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Site survey requirements for wireless VOIP

2008-05-09 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
I hear you -- but I really appreciate hearing everyone gripe (and it is an issues forum after all). So how do we go about getting Cisco to hear all this good stuff? Cisco are you listening? --Bruce Johnson -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Site survey requirements for wireless VOIP

2008-05-09 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 11:32 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Site survey requirements for wireless VOIP I hear you -- but I really appreciate hearing everyone gripe

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Site survey requirements for wireless VOIP

2008-05-09 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Bruce T Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 11:32 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Site survey requirements for wireless VOIP I hear you -- but I really appreciate hearing

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Site survey requirements for wireless VOIP

2008-05-09 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
;-) Philippe -- Philippe Hanset University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Information Technology Network Services 108 James D Hoskins Library 1400 Cumberland Ave Knoxville, TN 37996 Tel: 1-865-9746555 -- On Fri, 9 May 2008, Johnson, Bruce T

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba's SCA vs. MCA whitepaper [was: Open Wireless in Higher Ed]

2008-04-01 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Thanks Daniel, All Meru says is put your faith in Air Traffic Control without offering any explanation how it how it addresses (coordinates) the MAC and PHY challenges pointed out in the Aruba article. The spirit of 802.11 is not the necessarily the content of the protocol, but the fact

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba's SCA vs. MCA whitepaper [was: Open Wireless in Higher Ed]

2008-03-31 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Yet another architecture (sectorized multi-AP array). This is comparing apples and oranges (except we don't know the variety of traditional apple Tolly is comparing Xirrus to in the study). I think the problem is all these vendors live in Silicon Valley flatland and don't consider the effect of

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Open Wireless in Higher Ed

2008-03-26 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Brian, I'm curious about your Meru experiences. Aruba recently released a white paper on the downsides of a single-channel architecture. Its a pretty cogent argument, and I haven't seen any response yet from Meru. You can take a look at it here:

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Open Wireless in Higher Ed

2008-03-26 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
-LAN] Open Wireless in Higher Ed It¹s interesting, but it¹s all theory. I don¹t see any data in this paper. -- Daniel Eklund Director, Network Engineering Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48201 Phone: 313-577-5558 Fax: 313-577-5577 From: Johnson, Bruce T [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone using 5.0 Cisco WiSM/WLC code?

2008-03-25 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
Hey Steve, Curious as to those high load hangs. We're running 4.2.99 on several WiSM-based controllers. What's the symptom? Do you have to reboot the controllers? Thanks, * Bruce T. Johnson Network Engineer Partners Healthcare 617-726-9662

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Anyone using 5.0 Cisco WiSM/WLC code?

2008-03-25 Thread Johnson, Bruce T
with cisco. What are you experiencing ? Steve Johnson, Bruce T wrote: Hey Steve, Curious as to those high load hangs. We're running 4.2.99 on several WiSM-based controllers. What's the symptom? Do you have to reboot the controllers? Thanks, * Bruce